It has been a few months since I posted here, and surprisingly much water has gone under the bridge. For most of my enlightenment, I owe Eliezer Yudkowsky, who is much smarter than me and something of a hero. (He’s also an autodidact. I will catch up to you!)
The two largest changes: I have come [...]
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I’ve come a long way, baby
Posted in Bayesian, Eliezer Yudkowsky, artificial intelligence, atheism, ideas, mind, transhumanism on 2008-03-20 | Leave a Comment »
What AI did wrong, and an isomorphism of failure
Posted in artificial intelligence, mind, science on 2007-10-26 | 6 Comments »
General artificial intelligence has consistently failed. Although the number of problems thought to be general has been chipped away with narrow AI, the problem of generality shows no sign of being reduced.
At the same time, a theory of the organization of mind has been constructed from empirical data about the nature of learning. This has [...]